Item Detail
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33044
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0
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5
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English
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AWARE, Consciousness Raising, and RLDS Feminist Networks, 1969-1985
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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Spring/Summer 2023
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43
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148-163
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"In the late 1960s and 1970s, RLDS feminists formed consciousness-raising groups that, in turn, fostered new outlooks for the RLDS church—for women and for life. Part of an emerging RLDS feminist network, consciousness-raising groups constructed varied modes of communication that allowed people to connect through newsletters, conferences, mass meetings, reading lists, inclusive liturgies, and advocacy letters to church officials. This web of discursive connections impacted the values of the network as women drew ideas from a diverse array of both religious and secular feminist voices. As an upshot of this, participants in RLDS feminist consciousness-raising groups initiated a power-sharing framework of consensus in their meetings that, in turn, helped reorient the goals, if not the actual practices, of worship and conferencing in the church by the 1990s. Furthermore, groups within the network helped create an environment in which women’s participation in the life of the church increased and gained value. While we have not argued such a network alone created policy change that resulted in women’s ordination, we simply note that the RLDS feminist network helped catalyze such change." [Authors]
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